April 2019

“Thinking Like a Naturalist: Reclaiming the Art of Natural History” Learn how to be a naturalist. Our day begins with an introductory class: Thinking like a Naturalist, where we explore how to increase your observational skills, memory, curiosity, and creative thinking. We then go out into the Big Trees to explore and put these skills [...]

May 2019

Plein Air painting demonstrations and instruction. En plein air, or plein air painting, is a phrase borrowed from the French equivalent meaning "open (in full) air". It is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors, also called French: peinture sur le motif ("painting of the object(s) or what the eye actually sees"), where [...]